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Refugee Crisis, Kurdistan Question: What's Turkey's "New Reality" In Syria
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime collapsed in just 13 days of rebel offensive after 24 years of rule, leaving a political vacuum in its capital Damascus.
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"We're Still In Tents": Arab Refugees See Bias As Europe Welcomes Ukrainians
Syrian refugee Ahmad al-Hariri, who fled the war in his country for neighbouring Lebanon 10 years ago, spent the last decade hoping in vain to escape to a new life in Europe.
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"I'll Drown You": Video Shows Syrian Teen Being Choked In England School
Jamal and his sister had been bullied repeatedly since fleeing the Syrian civil war and moving to West Yorkshire two years earlier, according to British news outlets, which did not fully identify the family.
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After Photo Of Her Drowned Nephew Went Viral, Syrian Woman Tells Story
Alan Kurdi's corpse, photographed by a Turkish journalist in the morning's early light on September 2, 2015, looked at first like a sleeping toddler, the 3-year-old's cheek pressed against the sand in breaking water. It was an image that ripped through a crowded news cycle, articulating without words the horror of what was unfolding on the beaches ...
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China Donates $1 Million Towards Food Aid For War-Stricken Syrians
China has donated $1 million in aid to the World Food Programme (WFP) in Syria to purchase food for the war-stricken Syrians, the Chinese Embassy in Syria has said.
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Newspaper Identifies 33,293 People Who Died Seeking Shelter In "Fortress Europe"
Four-month-old Syrian baby Faris Ali froze to death in a tent in Turkey, five-year-old Afghan Sajida Ali's body washed ashore after a shipwreck, and tiny Samuel drowned with his mother as she tried to reach Spain after leaving home in Congo.
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Violence Against Syria's Children 'At Its Worst' In 2016: UN
UNICEF said that cases of children being killed, maimed, or recruited into armed groups were the "highest on record" last year.
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Syrian Foreign Minister Calls On Refugees To Return Home
Syria's foreign minister on Monday called on the country's refugees to return home, official media reported, without directly commenting on a US ban targeting them.
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Donald Trump Signs Order To Bar Some Refugees; Signals Prioritising Syrian Christians
President Donald Trump on Friday signed an executive order that will limit immigration and refugees from some Muslim-majority countries and he separately said he wanted the United States to give priority to Syrian Christians fleeing the civil war there.
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Saudi Arabia Launches Campaign To Collect Funds For Syrians Displaced By War
Saudi Arabia has launched a fundraising campaign for Syrians displaced by a five-year civil war, including those evacuated from eastern Aleppo, state news agency SPA reported on Monday.
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Rich Nations Urged To Resettle More Syrian Refugees To Save Lives
Less than three percent of Syrians who fled the civil war crossing into a neighbouring state have been resettled to a rich country, a charity said on Thursday, urging wealthy nations to take in a more equitable share of refugees.
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Syrian Girls Flee War Only To Become Mothers In Jordan Camp
In a crowded maternity clinic at a refugee camp in Jordan near the Syrian border, Elhem cradled her crying 11-month-old son, bounced him on her knee and then handed him to her mother to help calm him down.
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'We Will Give Him A Family': 6-Year-Old Boy Writes Obama About Refugee 'Brother'
For many of us, the images of 5-year-old Omran Daqneesh, injured, ashen and bewildered after an airstrike in Aleppo last month, crystallized the horror of Syria's civil war. It made us wonder, again, how that horror might be stopped.
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Camps Full As Tens Of Thousands Flee Regime In Syria's Aleppo
Camps for the displaced along Syria's border with Turkey are at full capacity, aid workers say, as tens of thousands flee a major government offensive in Aleppo province.
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Gay Syrian Refugee's Hope Of New Life Tested By Dutch Camps
Omar had long dreamt of escaping discrimination in Syria, and drawn by exuberant images of the Gay Pride march in Amsterdam he hoped to find a new life in the Dutch city after fleeing war at home.
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Refugee Crisis, Kurdistan Question: What's Turkey's "New Reality" In Syria
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime collapsed in just 13 days of rebel offensive after 24 years of rule, leaving a political vacuum in its capital Damascus.
-
"We're Still In Tents": Arab Refugees See Bias As Europe Welcomes Ukrainians
Syrian refugee Ahmad al-Hariri, who fled the war in his country for neighbouring Lebanon 10 years ago, spent the last decade hoping in vain to escape to a new life in Europe.
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"I'll Drown You": Video Shows Syrian Teen Being Choked In England School
Jamal and his sister had been bullied repeatedly since fleeing the Syrian civil war and moving to West Yorkshire two years earlier, according to British news outlets, which did not fully identify the family.
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After Photo Of Her Drowned Nephew Went Viral, Syrian Woman Tells Story
Alan Kurdi's corpse, photographed by a Turkish journalist in the morning's early light on September 2, 2015, looked at first like a sleeping toddler, the 3-year-old's cheek pressed against the sand in breaking water. It was an image that ripped through a crowded news cycle, articulating without words the horror of what was unfolding on the beaches ...
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China Donates $1 Million Towards Food Aid For War-Stricken Syrians
China has donated $1 million in aid to the World Food Programme (WFP) in Syria to purchase food for the war-stricken Syrians, the Chinese Embassy in Syria has said.
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Newspaper Identifies 33,293 People Who Died Seeking Shelter In "Fortress Europe"
Four-month-old Syrian baby Faris Ali froze to death in a tent in Turkey, five-year-old Afghan Sajida Ali's body washed ashore after a shipwreck, and tiny Samuel drowned with his mother as she tried to reach Spain after leaving home in Congo.
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Violence Against Syria's Children 'At Its Worst' In 2016: UN
UNICEF said that cases of children being killed, maimed, or recruited into armed groups were the "highest on record" last year.
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Syrian Foreign Minister Calls On Refugees To Return Home
Syria's foreign minister on Monday called on the country's refugees to return home, official media reported, without directly commenting on a US ban targeting them.
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Donald Trump Signs Order To Bar Some Refugees; Signals Prioritising Syrian Christians
President Donald Trump on Friday signed an executive order that will limit immigration and refugees from some Muslim-majority countries and he separately said he wanted the United States to give priority to Syrian Christians fleeing the civil war there.
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Saudi Arabia Launches Campaign To Collect Funds For Syrians Displaced By War
Saudi Arabia has launched a fundraising campaign for Syrians displaced by a five-year civil war, including those evacuated from eastern Aleppo, state news agency SPA reported on Monday.
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Rich Nations Urged To Resettle More Syrian Refugees To Save Lives
Less than three percent of Syrians who fled the civil war crossing into a neighbouring state have been resettled to a rich country, a charity said on Thursday, urging wealthy nations to take in a more equitable share of refugees.
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Syrian Girls Flee War Only To Become Mothers In Jordan Camp
In a crowded maternity clinic at a refugee camp in Jordan near the Syrian border, Elhem cradled her crying 11-month-old son, bounced him on her knee and then handed him to her mother to help calm him down.
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'We Will Give Him A Family': 6-Year-Old Boy Writes Obama About Refugee 'Brother'
For many of us, the images of 5-year-old Omran Daqneesh, injured, ashen and bewildered after an airstrike in Aleppo last month, crystallized the horror of Syria's civil war. It made us wonder, again, how that horror might be stopped.
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Camps Full As Tens Of Thousands Flee Regime In Syria's Aleppo
Camps for the displaced along Syria's border with Turkey are at full capacity, aid workers say, as tens of thousands flee a major government offensive in Aleppo province.
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Gay Syrian Refugee's Hope Of New Life Tested By Dutch Camps
Omar had long dreamt of escaping discrimination in Syria, and drawn by exuberant images of the Gay Pride march in Amsterdam he hoped to find a new life in the Dutch city after fleeing war at home.
